Inside all casinos are crooked punters. This is not confined to casinos of course but reflects life in general. Where there are avenues to get your hands on money or places where money is available then scam artists will frequent these places.
Whether it is poker cheats inside a card room, slot machine cheats trying to rig a machine inside an arcade or cheats inside a casino…..they exist and not only that…..they also approach staff who they think are potential targets to help them in their dirty work.
I know this for a fact because I was approached not once but numerous times when I worked in gaming. Many of the punters knew where staff used to hang out after work or before work or even on off days. This could be local 24 hour Snooker clubs or nightclubs…..they knew where we were.
I remember one punter who approached me to take out some sort of loan that he could arrange for me for £50,000. I forget what type of loan it was and this is going back 13 years so the details are very vague in my memory. But he claimed that this loan debt would be written off if I lost my job and that we could then spilt the money.
I never trusted this guy anyway at the roulette tables so I was never going to trust him here. It was academic anyway as there is no way that I would ever get involved with something of this nature. I should have reported it but he had become sort of like a friend so I didn’t like to do that. It was only later that I realised that the “friendship” thing was more than likely manipulated by him for this purpose.
